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Article: No mesh, no fuss: a mechanical engineering researcher says that by doing away with the finite-element mesh, he has the answer to simultaneous design and analysis.
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- Mechanical Engineering-CIME
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- May 1, 2006
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With many of today's analysis systems, design engineers can essentially analyze as they design. Yet, one step in the modern-day design-analysis process can be done away with to make everything work together even quicker than it does already, according to a Purdue University mechanical engineering professor. He envisions an analysis without the very finite elements that put the "FE" in FEA.
Although many analysis packages claim to let mechanical engineers design and analyze, there's still a lag between those two processes, said Ganesh Subbarayan, a professor of mechanical engineering at the university in West Lafayette, Ind. Subbarayan said he's working on ...